Tape of suspect's confession played for jury in murder trial

After denying for more than a day that she had anything to do with Audelia Bogard's death, Delia White had had enough.

She met briefly with her son, and the two shared a meal brought in for them by police.

And then, as the eight women and four men on the jury for White's murder trial saw Wednesday, she met with a detective and talked about what happened for more than five hours.

Her Nov. 12, 2005, video-taped confession to Waukegan police Detective Charles Schletz took a long time to complete because White admitted she killed Bogard but was unclear on many details.

On the video played in Circuit Judge James Booras' courtroom, White said Bogard ordered her to leave the Mundelein apartment the two shared with White's son, Steven Arthurs. White had lived there for less than a week.

Bogard thought White had sided with Arthurs, Bogard's fiancée, in an argument the previous night.

White told Schletz she recalled Bogard was screaming at her, but her initial recollection of the details was hazy.

"She was yelling at me and yelling at me and yelling at me," White said. "And the next thing I know, I am driving away in the Jeep."

As the conversation with Schletz continued, White eventually remembered she followed Bogard into a bedroom and the two began to fight.

Bogard fell to the floor, White said, and she straddled the fallen woman.

White said she hit Bogard several times in the back of the head with the object she described as about the size of a brick.

She said she took the object, which police believe may have been Bogard's jewelry box, and her blood-soaked clothing and put them in a plastic garbage bag.

White said she drove Bogard's Jeep to the Waukegan lakefront and threw the bag into Lake Michigan.

Defense attorney Christopher Lombardo is trying to undercut the confession by claiming the length of time White was questioned by police wore her down mentally.

He showed jurors several examples of detectives lying to White about information witnesses had given or evidence they had collected.

One detective, Andrew Jones of Libertyville, defended the practice of giving false information to a suspect during questioning when Lombardo asked him about it earlier Wednesday.

"Factual misrepresentation is a technique used to try to get someone to switch stories," Jones said. "An innocent person would know a factual misrepresentation is a lie."

Testimony is expected to continue today.